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> [It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/it-is-better-to-prevent-crimes-than-to-punish-them/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

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## More by Cesare Beccaria

> [Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/crimes-are-more-effectually-prevented-by-the-certainty-than-the/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/the-laws-that-forbid-the-carrying-of-arms-serve-rather-to-encourage/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [“  If every individual be bound to society, society is equally bound to him, by a contract which from its nature equally binds both parties.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/if-every-individual-be-bound-to-society-society-is-equally-bound-to/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/the-laws-that-forbid-the-carrying-of-arms-disarm-only-those-who-are/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/the-punishment-of-death-is-the-war-of-a-nation-against-a-citizen/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [Happy is the nation without a history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/happy-is-the-nation-without-a-history/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [“  Every punishment which does not arise from absolute necessity, says the great Montesquieu, is tyrannical. A proposition which may be made more general thus:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/every-punishment-which-does-not-arise-from-absolute-necessity-says/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/the-fault-no-child-ever-loses-is-the-one-he-was-most-punished-for/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/for-a-punishment-to-be-just-it-should-consist-of-only-such-gradations/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/laws-against-the-possession-of-weapons-only-disarm-those-who-have-no/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/false-is-the-idea-of-utility-that-sacrifices-a-thousand-real/)

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> [“When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge than to examine the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/when-a-fixed-code-of-laws-which-must-be-observed-to-the-letter-leaves/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [“It is a considerable point in all good legislation to determine exactly the credibility of witnesses and the proofs of a crime. Every reasonable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/it-is-a-considerable-point-in-all-good-legislation-to-determine/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/it-is-better-to-prevent-crimes-than-to-punish-them/)

[Cesare Beccaria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesare-beccaria/)

> [False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesare-beccaria/false-is-the-idea-of-utility-that-sacrifices-a-thousand-real-2/)

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